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It has been mentioned that it would be very helpful if the originator of a post provided a bit of information regarding a solution to it. Don't know if this qualifies but I want to fill in some details about my friends who gave me inspiration for the initial post. I have known them since high school (over 40 years) and luckily they have all stayed in the neighborhood.
One is an accountant who does my tax returns, another is a landscaper who plows my parent's driveway in the winter and another is a master plumber who fixes my mistakes.

In exchange for their help, I melt metal and repair what I can for them.

No money is exchanged - only beer and favors.

It's good to have friend's like them even if we all pick on each other.

I split the stainless steel tubing holding the vacuum cup handle so it could swivel to adapt to a curved roof if needed. Once it fit my roof, I tightened up the hose clamp.

Have fun

Thanks for that - I got a couple of suction cup gadgets and our local importers emporium the other day, so now to find some time and steel.
How long is your roller, and is it a single roller or 3 of them? I looked at what was in the boat shops and they were all short - and expensive. Anything with the word "boat" seems to double in price...

The roller is 20" long and is 3 pieces.
The tapered ends were originally one 8" V shaped roller.
The middle one was a straight 8"roller - 2 1/2" diameter.
Stainless flat stock is 2" x 1/8" - definitely over-built
but I had it left from another project.
Since I don't have a lathe, I had to send the pieces out to a machine shop.
They trimmed the V roller to match the straight section and made the white bushings.
Also threaded the 3/4" stainless axle for 3/8-16 bolts.
Cost a bit, but they did a great job.

Another goofy project

Big animal trap

I had been having trouble with wildlife getting into my trash cans and chewing holes in my vinyl siding.
Tried the simple fix to chase them away using moth balls with no luck.
Set up a game camera and saw that raccoons and a fox seemed to be the problem.
Bought a bucket trap and a large box trap and set them out.
No luck after 3 weeks with more chaos and damage.
Determined to catch them, I felt like Bill Murray in the movie Caddyshack.
The game cam videos showed that the animals were too smart for the traps.
They would look in but not enter the traps.
Battle of wits and I was the nit-wit.
Or maybe they didn't just like my bait.

Made this larger version which did the trick.
Frame is 4 sections of 2 ft x 6 ft stainless metro shelving.
Used hose clamps to join them together as I needed to reuse them afterwards.
Door is made from old bed frame angle and expanded metal.
Trip mechanism took a bit of trial and error to get right.
Door has drop lock bar to keep it closed.

Big trap results

Part 2

Modifications made during the trial phase:
1 - Put a board in the bottom as the animals paws were slipping thru the wire spacing and they would not go in.
2 - Changed the mechanism lubricant from bacon grease to 90 weight gear lube due to them eating the grease.
3 - Changed bait from stale bread to stale cheeseburgers.

Caught 4 raccoons, 3 foxes, and 2 possums and moved them to the small box trap.
Relocated them to my landscaper friend ( the one who said "need a life") with geese and groundhogs issues on his farm.
A win-win situation all around.

PS - No animals were hurt or abused during the life of this of this project.
However, many aluminum cans of beer were sacrificed to the scrap yard in the process.

Another goofy project but now that the intruders are relocated, I miss them.
Go figure!